At long last, Tom Anderson has made a Crowdster Plus 2 in lefty. He has said he would not it, not do it, not do it, then; okay I'll do it. His reluctance was because of the electronics (talk to him if you need an explanation). This guitar sounds completely acoustic, or completely electric, your wish is it's command.Crowdster Plus 2 pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Part of my reason for becoming a Gretsch dealer was to get Gretsch to make more models available in lefty. They stock a huge number of righty models, but the lefty selection is meager. The Tim Armstrong hollow body was their first Electronmatic lefty ever. This is their second. $749 with OHS case. I should have this guitar in black next week. The next models I'm pushing for are Electromatic Corvettes and double cut hollowbodies. I'm also expecting left handed Gretsch Silver Falcons next year.Electromatic Pro Jet pictures by jerrysleftyguitars - Photobucket

Varnished instruments have been getting a lot of talk in the last decade or so. It is supposed to get you the sound of vintage instrument from something made today. Collings has a $2000 upcharge for their varnished F style mandolin.

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ALL THAT'S NEW AT JERRY'S LEFTY GUITARS!

This is a way for me to immediately let you know what has arrived on a weekly basis. I will be posting all new guitars first on this blog with links to Flickr and pricing. They go on my website soon after if I did not sell it directly as a result of someone seeing it on this blog first. It usually takes about a week for a guitar to go from blog to website. Please direct inquiries about buying guitars you see on this blog to my email or phone. I've sold hundreds of guitars from the blog that have never made it to my website or the "sold guitars" pages on the website. If you see something you are interested in, email or call. Whomever asks about a particular guitar gets the first refusal on the guitar. You can subscribe to this blog so every time I post you get an email. That way you know the day anything new arrives. I'll likely be posting weekly, letting you know what's up in the lefty guitar world (or my little corner of it anyway).

There will probably be some growing pains (certainly on my part!) with this blog, but I'll figure it out eventually.

Click on any photo in this blog for a LARGE photo.

I've now subscribed to Flickr to host my photos. They present the photos much better than Photobucket. I currently have over 1400 guitars (over 28,000 photos) on Flickr. Click on "Albums" to see all the guitars on the account. I'll be keeping the Photobucket account as I have over 1000 guitars on there already.

On Photobucket, you can click on the "view all albums" under the 10 albums shown on the right (bottom of Sub-albums list) and access all the manufacturers (about 70 right now) files that I have photos for. Beginning 7/30/11 I have started adding sub-albums to all the albums so you won't have to search all the photos in an album to find the specific one you are seeking. You can find the sub-albums on the left hand side of the album page. For example, if you want to see the Collings MF, you click on the Collings album and then click the MF sub-album. I started doing this when I realized some of the albums were getting so massive. Who knew I would have over 50,000 photos of ONLY lefty guitars!

Jerry Welch

My Guitar Story...

I bought my first guitar (a right handed Martin Vega V845, because I'm right handed) in 1975 just before my 21st birthday. Two weeks later I cut off my left index finger in a construction accident (I was a full time carpenter since age 17). I thought my guitar playing days were done.

A few years later, I decided I really wanted to play and it seemed playing left handed was the answer. Having a full hand to fret with seemed more important than a full hand to strum with. So I became a lefty player. I banged around on that turned around Vega for years before deciding to find a factory lefty. Any lefty knows what happened next, frustration. Not even 1% of guitars built are lefties, even though 8% to 10% of the population are lefties.

I eventually accumulated a large collection of lefties but was unhappy with the limited choices all lefties have. I wanted more choices so I spoke with many manufacturers about making more models available. I was told pretty unanimously that they would be happy to make me lefties if I would order them in quantities that would make production feasible. So I did, and here I am a dealer.

I'm finally getting to play a wider range of instruments. I'm having guitars built lefty that have never before been available. I'm working every day to expand the lefty playing options.